Mental-Health – Page 3 – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food

The Easiest Way to Exercise

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 9, 2015 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Self-Care

Easiest Way to Exercise? Just Move Your Body I’m grateful to report that our family of four (including one fully fledged teenager and one on the cusp) managed to survive six nights away together at the Sunshine Coast. We had a wonderful time exploring the hinterland, enjoying the pool and walking along the beach. Unsurprisingly, the Sunshine Coast is abuzz with health enthusiasts. People of all ages, sizes and capabilities were busily huffing and puffing as they walked, ran, jogged and rode their bikes, or walked their dogs. Early in the morning, late in the afternoon and any time in-between,

Is Living to Work Working For You?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 26, 2015 / Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Self-Care

Live to Work or Work to Live? Today I’m packing and making some nutrient dense foods to take with us for the road trip tomorrow. I was thinking about making my: Berry Delicious Health Bars Sweet Summer Rolls Super Seed Crackers with cashew cheese Spiced Fruit Loaf (I love taking homemade treats when we go away – even if they only last a day or two!!) Over the next 7 days I’ll be somewhere along the Sunshine Coast strolling along the beach, bushwalking in the mountains, or dining on whole food with my beloved family! It hasn’t been often in the last

Benefits of Bentonite Clay

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 21, 2015 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Self-Care

Bentonite Clay and it’s Benefits Last year in my effort to combat environmental toxins harming my internal health, I discovered organic, edible bentonite clay. Clay has been used therapeutically for centuries, with the first use of medicinal clay recorded in 2500 B.C in Mesopotamia. Over the centuries the Greeks, Romans, Aztecs and Europeans have all hailed the health benefits of clay. During the First World War, German physicians used clay therapy to successfully treat troops for food poisoning, dysentery, and diarrhea and wound infection. Dr. Weston A. Price, author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, observed that several indigenous groups around the world used clay readily to outsmart disease

Solitude & Self-Care in a Busy World

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 1, 2015 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Self-Care

Daily Self-Care and Solitude As our lives get busier and time is harder to juggle, the first thing to slide is usually our own self-care. Even though I’m in a helping profession often reminding my clients with emails and text messages between sessions to “do something nice for yourself today”, I often need reminding myself! I have a book called “The Wonders of Solitude” that is filled with inspiring reminders to nurture your soul amidst a demanding world. It’s filled with insightful quotes from authors, actors and spiritual leaders to medical professionals, singers and comedians – all sharing their words of wisdom on the

Uncover your desires for an authentic life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 15, 2015 / Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Wellness Coaching

Uncover how to create an Authentic Life What do you want? Such a question may seem like an innocent enquiry, yet sadly we rarely ask ourselves. Life takes us in so many different directions that we often forget to course correct when we take a wrong turn. When I ask my clients this simple question, I am often met with silence, tears or an invitation to finally let it all out. The blank look on their faces often conveys their confusion: at the fact that someone is genuinely interested, or the realisation that they actually don’t know. The fierce rush

How to Heal Your Gut (instead of bloating, fatigue and hormone imbalance)

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 7, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mental-Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Bloating? Fatigue? Hormone Imbalance? In the last two years we’ve heard more and more about the importance of gut health and it’s influence on the brain and mood – Largely thanks to the ABC Catalyst Program for their gut and brain function series last year which you can watch here. When I was navigating my way through Bulimia Nervosa for 18 years – eating and throwing up and literally hating my own guts – I had NO CLUE as to how our digestive health is intimately linked to our immune, endocrine, circulatory and central nervous systems… I didn’t realise that all the

The secret to Visualisation and Creating Change

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 12, 2015 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Wellness Coaching

Visualisation Secret to Create Change Every January millions around the world make New Year’s Resolutions. They have the best of intentions to create change and often convince themselves that this time they’re really going to do it. One small problem: only thinking that you want to make change, is not physically going to create any! You firstly need to write your goals down so you can see them and make them appear real – preferably in big bold letters on colourful paper. You can even decorate a vision board on large cardboard, covered with pictures, symbols, words and drawings that summarise and capture the essence of

Do you Love or Hate your Body?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 22, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Self-Esteem

Body Love Heals Body Hate How many times have you looked at your physical reflection and zoned in on the body parts you’re not so fond of, only to begin a barrage of nasty name-calling and judgements in your mind towards it? Our body image is largely dependent on how we FEEL and THINK about our bodies. When we have negative feelings towards our bodies, our mind, mood, confidence, eating choices and behaviour all decline as we focus on those negative feelings. We start feeling overcome by them, and stop noticing anything good about ourselves. [Tweet “Your body is a beautiful complex machine. “] It keeps you upright, breathing

Being Grateful at Christmas

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 22, 2014 / Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Wellness Coaching

Be Grateful at Christmas It’s the season of Turkey, trifle and last minute shopping. It’s also a time for giving, receiving and being thankful: a wonderful act of gratitude that I teach my students and clients to do on a daily basis; particularly for those struggling to shift negativity. When our attention is constantly focused on the annoying, unhappy, challenging, or just plain hard aspects of our lives, a low mood and feelings of helplessness can consume us – especially at Christmas time. In this state of mind it’s all too easy to forget that whatever it is, that it will pass.

How to Make Sauerkraut

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 24, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition

Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Kombucha GUT problems? Bloating? Irregular poop? Eat Sauerkraut! Cultured or fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir grains, kombucha, yoghurt and cheese are fantastic to feed your good gut bacteria (your microbiome). They contribute immensely to healing and building our inner ecosystem. Friendly bacteria naturally present in the vegetables quickly lower the pH, making a more acidic environment so the bacteria can reproduce. The vegetables become soft, delicious, and delightfully “pickled.” Fermenting creates beneficial enzymes, b-vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, and various strains of probiotics. Cultured vegetables are made by shredding cabbage, or a combination of cabbage and other vegetables, and

Mindful Eating 101

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 21, 2014 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition

Mindful Eating Tips Having lived through 18 years of Bulimia Nervosa, I’m certainly no stranger to the “stuff it in before you realise how much you’re eating” habit. I wouldn’t even taste my food for fear of being too slow that someone might actually see me eating! We don’t just eat fast and mindless because of food or body issues, there are so many people in this fast paced world who are simply running on empty. They are “go, go, go” people with so much to do, but never enough time to do it in. This couldn’t be more true

Gut Health – Feed Your Good Bacteria

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 20, 2014 / dieting, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Feeding Your Bacteria Is the food we’re eating on a regular basis the reason why we get sick? If we change our food, could we change the state of our health? Can we also affect our moods by making changes to our diet? I firmly believe we can. The collective human microbe colony weighs about 1 and a-half kilos – as much as our brains. Bacterial cells outnumber our human cells by 10 to 1 and they live predominantly inside our gut. Our gut bacteria, also known as the Microbiome (pronounced micro-bi-ome) lives off of the food we eat. The problem is that certain

Why Women are more alike than they think

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 24, 2014 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching, Workshops

Self-Love, a Retreat for the Soul Recently I hosted my 4 day Women’s Wellness and Meditation Retreat for a large group of beautiful and brave women. WOW! Awesome experience I’ve waited patiently for years to be able to create and host. Most of the ladies came from the Darling Downs; however a few travelled from New South Wales, ACT and the Sunshine Coast to be with us. These ladies were of course, all different. They ranged in ages from 27 to 66 years old. They each had a story – some quite a few. They had experienced all the modern

This is my Beautiful 40 year old Body

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 3, 2014 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

My Beautiful 40 Year Old Body For those of you wondering how my knee is healing after surgery in June, it’s been slow, especially as a secondary injury was initially overlooked. Over the years my body has faced tremendous abuse; physical, emotional and self-inflicted. I’ve been hard on myself and pushed my body to breaking point many times with several broken bones, tears and surgeries. Throughout many stressful years my weight struggled to settle because of the severe restriction, starvation and binge/purge episodes I put it through for 18 years. My hormones, metabolism and digestion broke down several times. I

Yoga and Meditation Term in Highfields, Darling Downs

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 25, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Meditation, Mental-Health, Self-Care

Yoga AND Meditation How cool is breathing in alignment with your body moving? And then sitting in stillness to allow the breath to flow through you? I love meditation and I love yoga, having practised both for over 25 years. At one stage, I was quite the yogini – practising regularly and feeling my whole outlook and body change as I bent, stretched, breathed and improved. Whatever was going on in my life often stepped onto the mat with me, but by the time I was finished it had released off my shoulders, heart or mind and allowed me room

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